I'm really sorry for my quite long hiatus. Truthfully, I had idea to continue this chapter, but because without any reason I suddenly got crazy with English, I stopped to write it until my mood came back from its adventure. Haha. And thanks God it went home safely few days ago and I could write again.
Thanks to somebody new and skybluescramble −my beloved partner who has contagious craziness and made me become like THIS− for reviewed the previous chapter. And also many thanks go to people who listed my story as your favorite! Really really thank you!
Anyway, please enjoy the fourth chapter of 'Lost'.
Disclaimer: I think it's not really important, actually. We already know that Fullmoon wo Sagashite is belong to Arina Tanemura, not mine. But this fic is nekoTaku-chan's, other word, mine.
LOST
Chapter 4 ~ The Hospital ~
We were in Wakaouji-sensei's car right now, heading to the hospital where he works in. I would have a particular check up for my upcoming operation. Wakaouji-sensei had asked his friend in Germany to help him did the operation to me. I put my tiny bag on my lap where Meroko and Izumi-san were silently acted like stuffed animals.
"Nice weather, right, Mitsuki-chan?" Wakaouji-sensei said, started a conversation with me.
"Yes, it's not too hot, just sunny!" I answered while looked out over the window. He was right, the weather was great.
Wakaouji-sensei rolled his eyes from the road toward me, "New plush doll, Mitsuki-chan? A dog this time?"
I was a bit startled then looked at Izumi-san who was in my bag, "Ye-yes, Wakaouji-sensei! I bought it yesterday!"
"Oh I see… But where's the cat anyway? You always bring the cat with you, don't you?" he asked me out of the blue.
The question made me surprised. I never thought that Wakaouji-sensei ever noticed about my plush dolls and asked about the cat one. My heart beat faster and I suddenly felt bad again, but I tried to hide it from Wakaouji-sensei.
"Oh, the cat? I-I left it at home, Wakaouji-sensei! Today is the dog's turn!" I faked a smile while caressed Izumi-san's head.
"Ooh…" Wakaouji-sensei only mumbled when heard my answer.
I hung my head low after forced to laugh for Wakaouji-sensei. Realized my gloomy face, Meroko looked at me. She seemed very worried about me. And as the response, I just gave her a faked smile.
The cat had gone, Wakaouji-sensei.
He left me.
...
They arrived in the hospital then walked slowly to Wakaouji's room. He told Mitsuki to wait there while he prepared all of the equipments needed. The young doctor's room was kind of neat. Mitsuki never thought that her personal doctor is different from other young men who usually too lazy to clean up their own rooms. He arranged all of his stuffs in order. Books which titles begin with same alphabet were grouping together. Mitsuki touched his computer; there weren't any dust at all. Of course that was quite enough to make Mitsuki's mouth opened widely.
"Wakaouji-sensei is kind of neat though, Mitsuki!" said Meroko in amazed while her eyes observed the room.
"Yeah, it's quite astonishing, Meroko!" Mitsuki answered simply.
Not long after that, Wakaouji-sensei opened the door then walked slowly closer to Mitsuki. He already wore his long white coat, which signed if he was ready to examine Mitsuki's throat.
"Looks like you surprise about something, Mitsuki-chan! What's that?" he said while put his pen on the table.
"Oh, your room is very neat, Wakaouji-sensei! Did you clean it up yourself?" Mitsuki asked curiously to him.
"Of course not! A cleaning service did it for me!"
Well, that was enough to ruin everything.
"The equipments is ready, Mitsuki-chan! Come with me!" he told Mitsuki to follow him to a particular room for the check up.
Mitsuki just nodded then made her way to the room together with Wakaouji-sensei. Actually, Mitsuki has got there tons of times until she felt like the machines getting bored of her. But she didn't know why it made her nervous this time. Cold sweat made her palms wet and the cold-enough check up room made it worse. Perhaps it because today's check up was her final check up right before the doctors made decision what would they do with her throat. She scared if her throat was much worse than before; the doctors could do the worst thing that she couldn't imagine, removed her vocal cords.
Meroko who realized her friend's nervousness poked Mitsuki's hand then murmured softly to her, "Daijobu, Mitsuki! Get relax! Just does it as usual, okay?"
Mitsuki nodded and murmured, "Thank you!" while walked closer to Wakaouji-sensei.
She put her bag on the couch, so the plush dolls-like shinigami could watch her did the check up carefully. Truthfully, she thought it would be okay for Izumi to watch her throat entered by the check up machine. But it was much opposite for Meroko. She knew Meroko well. After all, Meroko is just a girl although she is a shinigami. Most of girls are much alike in personality. They hate disgusting thing.
And entering some kind of machine in someone's throat could be call disgusting too.
"You know exactly the procedure, right, Mitsuki-chan?" Wakaouji-sensei put his mask on and held the syringe which has an anesthetic substance in it.
Mitsuki answered her doctor's question while laid on the bed, "Of course, Wakaouji-sensei! It's already stuck on my head all this time!"
As Wakaouji-sensei gave anesthetic shot to Mitsuki, she began to felt sleepy and then unconscious. The check up was quite painful, because Mitsuki's throat would be entered by medical equipment which liked a camera that could show the tumor condition. So, the anesthetic shot was really important. After Wakaouji-sensei sure that Mitsuki has fallen asleep into deep slumber, he started checked her throat condition, activating the machine.
At first, Meroko thought that she was strong enough to watch Mitsuki's check up process and not being disgusted by it. She was in good mood, tried to comfort herself by started conversation with the dog-eared shinigami. But she was too full of herself until she didn't remember if Izumi was being stuffed animal right now, which means that Izumi couldn't speak at all. While Meroko was busy made conversation with him, Izumi just kept silent and gave her death glare, signed of anger. Because she was the one who turned him into stuffed animal and unfortunately he wasn't in his best condition so he couldn't turn himself into human form.
Meroko saw with her own eyes when the medical equipment entered Mitsuki's throat through her mouth. It was disgusting, indeed. But the pink bunny tried to be strong, "It seems painful, right, Izumi-kun?" she said while had sweat drops on her forehead.
She rolled her eyes to Izumi, but Izumi just gave her another death glare. It increased her nervousness.
Ten minutes, she tried to be calm.
"Wha-what's Mitsuki probably feeling right now? What do you think, Izumi-kun?" she still tried to make conversation with her partner.
Stronger intensity of dog-eared shinigami's death glare was all she got.
Fifteen minutes, she still could see Mitsuki examined by the young doctor.
Twenty minutes, she forced herself to stand with it, although her face started to become pale and she began to hang her head.
Thirty minutes, she ran to the restroom.
...
Meroko rushed out of the check up room in hurry. She ran quickly to the nearest restroom she could find. She almost threw up since she forced herself to see Mitsuki did her check up. She ran not even paid attention toward her surrounding. Ran, ran, and ran, until she found a particular room which has a man and woman pictured on its door as the symbols. After ran around five minutes, she finally found the restroom. Rushed in, and then rolled her eyes to search for the washbasin. She successfully threw up and gargled to rinse her mouth, didn't notice where she was actually.
"Waah, that was close! I can't throw up in front of Izumi-kun of course!" she muttered while wiped off the water on her mouth with hand, "But that kind of check up was very disgusting! How can Mitsuki bear with tha-" her sentence was stopped as a man opened the door and entered the restroom.
"Hey, wait! How dare you enter a woman restroom like this? This is a woman restroom, you know! A WOMAN RESTROOM!" she shouted loudly to that man. But it's useless; the man couldn't hear her, of course because she was in her shinigami form right now. A normal human can't hear shinigami's voice and can't see them though.
She started pissed off and then decided to follow the man while still tried to make him noticed if that was woman restroom. But what happened next was she screamed loudly as she noticed that she made a big mistake that time. She could she three men were busy took a pee while made conversation each other, with opened pants of course. Meroko almost fainted in ashamed, but she held herself and ran out of the restroom, a MAN restroom in fact. She still screamed loudly even when she had out of the restroom, and closed her face with both of her hands.
Honestly, she thought that she couldn't marry anyone since that incident.
Meroko ran with her eyes closed. I repeat once again, with her eyes closed. So after got tired and stopped ran, she didn't even know where she was. She lost in the hospital. She couldn't ask anyone of course, she's invisible. Being confused, she decided to explore the hospital alone, tried to think positive if she could find Mitsuki's place. Walked and walked without knowing any direction, she just trusted her feeling.
"Oh God, where am I?" she murmured desperately, still walked slowly exploring the hospital white-painted hallway.
She walked slowly when suddenly many doctors and nurses pierced her body. The nurses pulled a patient bed with them. They looked really busy. The nurses said many difficult words which Meroko didn't understand it's meaning to the doctors. Being curious, Meroko out of the blue looked at the patient's body which covered with white blanket. But then what all she did was screaming loudly once again. This time was not because she looked man's thing but because the patient's condition was really horrible. His head was covered with blood and a knife stuck in it, looked like he was victim of murderer.
"Gyyaaaa!" Meroko ran again and screamed. Maybe her scream could make the window in hospital trembled if her voice could be heard. She really scared of that kind of thing. She is a shinigami, yes, but still she is a girl. And maybe not only shinigami who would scream if looked at that kind of thing, but also human being would.
She stopped ran and noticed that she lost again. But this time she could take a little relief breath, because she arrived in front of patient room with the door opened. At least she was in a safe place to take a little rest. Her curiosity tickled her again; she unconsciously sneaked in to the room just for a while. She just wanted to look at the patient in it, and why the door remains opened.
"Sumimasen..." she muttered slowly. But of course she couldn't be heard.
A man sat on the bed. He faced the window, looked into the sky. Meroko couldn't see his face, but she could see that the man has short black hair and fair skin which kind of unusual for man who usually has well-burned skin. Maybe it's because he spent most of his time in the hospital. Even Meroko didn't have a good sight on him, but she saw that he has a good posture. Not too thin and not too fat, just average.
Meroko startled when she heard a nurse's footsteps came closer. She realized that she was in danger, not because the nurse would captured her sneaked in a patient room, but she knew if she didn't go out from this room now, she couldn't get out because the nurse probably would close the door as she went in. Even Meroko could make an invisible hole which could make her pierced the wall, but it took times to make.
And she walked quickly to the door and went out of the room right before the nurse close it, "Safe!" she sighed happily then walked slowly searched for Mitsuki's room again.
"I'm sorry for make you wait too long, Kira-san!" the nurse walked closer after closed the door behind her. She brought a medicine box and syringe with her.
The man rolled his blue eyes, "It's okay, Karakura-san, but you left the door opened!"
"Oh I really sorry, Takagi-san need my help for the operation so badly, I forgot to close the door" she explained her excuse while gave the patient his medicine.
"Alright" he took his medicine and drank the water, "Is Keiichi still has patient to examine?"
The nurse rolled her eyes from her syringe, "Wakaouji-san? Yes, he is still examine his patient right now" answered her, "Just for you know Kira-san, that Wakaouji-san's client has the same disease as yours, and poor her, she's still thirteen years old."
The man drank his water again then murmured, "Yeah, poor girl…"
And that is the fourth chapter! I made a little change in my writing style this time. What do you think? Do you like it?
These are some Japanese words in this chapter:
Daijobu : It's okay
Sumimasen : Excuse me
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